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Ship repainting
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Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#1 - 2013-02-21 03:39:58 UTC
No, no I'm not talking about letting people upload their own paint jobs - that's just crazy.

What I mean is just texture/emblem reskins based on all the major nations & pirate groups (and the pirate groups have already been done, I should add). Just as the Rattlesnake is just a Scorpion in Gurista paint, I'd like to see more of this and done with all major players possible.

For some examples: Are you in Amarr FW but flying a ship your Caldari friend made for you? Then repaint it in Amarr gold and change the emblem/decals on it to match. Are you a Minmatar pilot who like the Tormentor but don't want people to get confused? Strip the gold off and let that rust shine proudly behind your Republic decals. Are you nullsec pirate who like to role-play being a Blood Raider? Then slap their paint scheme on all yours ships.

As I said before, with a lot of pirate groups these reskins already exist in the game so it's just a matter of unlocking them. As for the rest... well, it gives the art department something to do between their yearly updates.

http://youtu.be/t0q2F8NsYQ0
Hakan MacTrew
Konrakas Forged
Solyaris Chtonium
#2 - 2013-02-21 06:18:48 UTC
Katran Luftschreck wrote:
As I said before, with a lot of pirate groups these reskins already exist in the game so it's just a matter of unlocking them. As for the rest... well, it gives the art department something to do between their yearly updates.

Would this be in addition to the V3 and V3+ work they are doing, not only on ships but structures, both internal and external, the new ships that get released and all the other myriad things they are currently doing?

It would probably take the same amount of time to create customisable skins as it would to fill your request.

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Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#3 - 2013-02-21 11:13:44 UTC
You mean that whole tesselation thing? It looks nice in theory, but I doubt my graphics card will even be able to make it part of my experience.

http://youtu.be/t0q2F8NsYQ0
Hakan MacTrew
Konrakas Forged
Solyaris Chtonium
#4 - 2013-02-21 17:24:22 UTC
I mean the retexturing of everything. They have already done several races.

If you have a look in the CSM minutes, Art section, they do discuss alternative skins. The minutes are in Jita Park Speakers Corner.

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SubMoja
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2013-02-22 14:36:13 UTC
Or at least being able to add corp logo in your ship.
Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#6 - 2013-02-22 22:02:38 UTC
You know... corp logo would actually be pretty easy and not a bandwidth hog at all. Figure that corp logos as they are now are recorded as just a number sequence rather than hard graphics files (item 12, pos X/Y, layer 5 color 6, etc). Any time you look up at someone's character sheet you've already loaded their corp logo into your graphics buffer. It's just a matter of copy & paste that same data to the sides of the ships.

http://youtu.be/t0q2F8NsYQ0